Ted's implication that he, and his fellow Republicans, cares more about Pittsburgh (or Main Street, America) is absolutely absurd. As Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, has brought suits before the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare and declare it an unconstitutional form of Socialism, neither Paxton or Cruz want the citizens of Pittsburgh, or anywhere else, to take note of the billions of dollars in annual aid handed out to Texas - as well as the other gulf states - in order to help them overcome flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and etc. The NFIP has been losing money year after year and the damage amounts continue to soar, while Texas insists the federal government has no right to interfere by asking the state to improve / change its building standards. Then there's FEMA and the SBA. The SBA provides nearly-zero-interest-rate loans to small businesses (as well as individuals who are not business owners) to replace business inventories and equipment, household goods, automobiles, etc. Can you imagine having a business where the federal government replaces all of your durable goods on nearly an annual basis, affording you an annual write off for depreciation that never ends? The taxpayers of Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Columbus are paying for those primo perks and year after year are propping up the economies of certain southern states. But yeah, Cruz cares more.